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OT - Silly Keyboard Problem
There are plenty of computer geeks in here, so I do hope one of the learned can tell me how to fix what I did. Duh...G LOL.. I am not a computer geek, but have problems with my keyboard, too. However, mine is due to sunflower seeds. Smile. |
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OT - Silly Keyboard Problem
"jamie" wrote in message ... It really doesn't sound like a hardware problem, but I suggest you first borrow another plain PS2 keyboard, and boot with that one, to rule out a hardware problem, especially if you have a fancy kybd with custom buttons, or a wireless. (On a laptop, try an external keyboard.) Ruling out the hardware or fancy keyboard driver is very quick, that's why I suggest it. Does this occur in particular applications, or everywhere? If everywhere, it sounds like some applet in your start-up might have been mistakenly set to use the quote character as a hotkey. See if it occurs when you boot in Safe Mode (F8 at boot for options), and if it does not occur, you could try porting "msconfig". Although, first I'd check it with an up to date antivirus, as well as with Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy to rule out effects of viruses and spyware hijacking items. MSCONFIG.EXE was a handy item that existed in Win98, and was stupidly omitted from Win2K, and returned in WinXP.....but the XP version of msconfig.exe can be copied from someone's WinXP and run on Win2K. You can copy it into your WINNT\SYSTEM folder, and then use Start Menu - Run - msconfig (or just copy it to your desktop and click it, if you like) With that you can selectively turn on and off start-up applets with checkboxes on the Start-up tab. (BTW, if anyone is still using Win95, the Win98 version of msconfig runs on Win95) Some of the items shown in msconfig Start-up tab are turned on in their own program options, but don't show in your Start-up folder in the Start menu. You might also recognize a number of items that don't really need to be started at boot in there, as software developers all seem to think their product is so important that part of it should be started at boot and tie up your memory, just to save a couple of seconds in opening the program. HTH Carmen wrote: Hello, Okay, as stated it is a silly problem. Somehow I've set something so that whenever I type a quotation mark (opening or closing) I have to hit "Enter" in order for the character to appear. Also, if I type a quotation mark or apostrophe without hitting "Enter" and just keep typing the next letter I often end up with an altered character, such as the letter U with an umlaut on it (ü). I've clearly managed to switch my keyboard to another character set - but which one and how do I get the darn thing back to normal? I'm using W2K. Under Start -- Settings--Control Panel--Regional Options-- it says "English (United States)" under the General tab, and under the Input Locales tab it says English (United States). It's set the same way under the Keyboard Input Locales tab. There are plenty of computer geeks in here, so I do hope one of the learned can tell me how to fix what I did. Duh...G Take care, Carmen -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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